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Phillip Lee’s bad press

The Remain rebels have this afternoon backed down and found a compromise to the government’s meaningful vote amendment that they can live with. So, was it all worth it? That’s a question Phillip Lee may well be asking himself – following his decision to resign his junior ministerial post last week so he could speak freely on his issues with the government’s Brexit strategy.

Alas, it seems not everyone in Lee’s Leave-voting Bracknell constituency about his escapades. Today’s issue of the Bracknell News sees the MP for Bracknell on the front page along with the headline ‘MP faces fresh calls to resign’:

‘Furious residents are calling for the resignation of Dr Phillip Lee from his seat as a member of parliament.’

One such resident – by the name of Victor Rones – says:

‘Dr Phillip Lee should go, he has always got an excuse, lost letters that were never sent, never answers e-mails these are not just his comments they are from his office covering up for him.

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